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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
THE DAILY
Saturday, December S3, 1871.
1 ‘T he Comptroller Generalship.’ 3
Under this head, we find in the Mil-
ledgeville Federal Union, of the 20tli in
stant, nn article "which so fully corres
ponds with onr own views upon the sub
ject, that we republish it entire. The
office of Comptroller General is, indeed,
one of the most important in the State,
ft is one in which the tax payers have
more direct interest than in any other.
Without any disparagement to others,
wo have no hesitancy in 6aying that we
these addresses, until duty to himself, as
well as to the public, required it? Has
he “come out” at all except in reply to
insidious attacks, not upon his merits or
qualifications for the office—because t hese
are beyond assault—but upon his Demo
cratic fidelity.
Was it not proper and necessary for
him to “come out” when even so at
tacked ? Is not his vindication in these
addresses upon these points ample and
complete? Can any one say that they
are not ? This writer seems to feel the
force of these, and attempts to break it
by saying that “when Major Burns was
elected he came out as often then as now.”
In this again we think great injustice is
done Colonel Thweatt.
It is true that Major Bums was elected
over him in 1865. It is also, true, we
believe, that at this election, certain per-
AN ANNIVERSARY.
aV A. E. WATSON.
Nine years! Anti does it seem so long.
Dear wife, that we have stood together?
The rapid years but prove we’ve had
Some sunshine ’mid our stormy weather.
ln-licve that Colonel Thweatt has no su
perior in the State, in all those qualifies- j SO ual charges were made against him
tioiia which eminently fit him for taking | wholly unfounded in fad, and which, he
charge of this Department of the Public
interests. Others may or might dis
charge the duties of th ; office satisfacto
rily—none cun do it more so than he lias
di*ue.
We indulge in no exaggerated ex
pression cf opinion in giving it as onr
belief that Col. Thweatt, by his vigilance,
watchfulness, fidelity and perfect acquain
tance with the business of the office, if
elected, will save to the treasury annually,
by stopping leakages alone, of various
sorts, not less than five times his salary.
No one at all acquainted with his admin
istration of the office for the eight years
he held it, will question the correctness
of this opinion.
The Senate, near the close of the late
session of the Legislature, adopted the
most admirable report of the Committee
upon the State of the Republic, which,
after speaking, among other things, of
the mismangament of our financial af
fairs within the last few years, concluded
with this, among other resolutions:
“Resolved 3. That in the opinion of
this body, our only sure plan of restoring
thought, as we know, cansed bis defeat.
But at that time lie did not ™
come out”
He silently bore the
Only those days are long that bring
Their bitter burdens for our bearing;
While those that glide on pleasure’s wings
Are all too fleetly disappearing.
But wo have walked in sun and shade;
There havo been storms no hand-could tether;
And yet through all these years, dear love,
In spite of storms, we’ve walked together.
If Fortune came, or fair or foul,
In her own proper form we took her,
Though she has trundled to our door
No burdena of convenient lucre.
last seen of the man, he was perfectly
blue in the face, and was calling lustily
for somebody to sit on him to keep him
from bursting. The chances are that
if he is called upon to read many more
such paragraphs the Coroner will have
to be called in to sit on him.
One Settle is United States Min
ister to Pern. He is home on sick leave,
drawing foil pay for his services as Min
ister, and employing himself in trying to
secure the Radical nomination for Gover
nor of North Carolina. “That do Settle
it”
Fortune at best is what wa will,
And luck is but a rapid prancer;
We taka the good the gods provide
While ill goes fiddling for a dancer.
peace and order in this State is to place
in positions of honor and trust, men of
integrity, ability and courage, and those
possessing the confidence of the people,
This resolution announces a great truth,
and rests upon an impregnable principle,
Let it be strictly conformed to, is all we
insist upon.
If any one can bo selected for Comp
troller General who is superior in integ
rity, ability for the position, conrage in
the discharge of its duties, or possessing
a ore of the confidence of the people than
Co'\ Thweatt, then, by all means, let such
one be chosen. We are controlled in all we
have said on this subject solely by consid
orations of the Public interests. We
subjoin the article of the Federal Union,
to which reference has been made.
A. H. S.
From the Federal Union.
Tlie Comptroller Generalship.
We have heretofore expressed our very
decided preference in favor of Col. Pe
terson Thweatt for this office.
In doing so, it was not our purpose to
bo considered as underrating or dispar
aging the qualifications of any other aspi
rant to this high and responsible positjpn.
It is indeed one of the most important
offices in the State; the duty to fill it de-
'volves upon the General Assembly; and
our wish—and we believe it to be the
wish of the people of the State, whose
interests are so deeply in it—is, that it
may be filled mainly with a view to pub
lic considerations and the fitness and
merits of the applicant on whom it may
be conferred. We were in hopes that
personal matters having no connection
with the office or its dnties would not
have been brought into the canvass. Bat
our hopes in this regard have been dis
appointed, and we take occasion to ex
press our regret at seeing in the Atlanta
Constitution of the 16th instant, an anony
mous communication upon the subject,
which we think does Col. Thweatt great
injustice. This writer urges the claims
of Col. Magill for the office. Against this
wo have nothing to say, nor against the
merits of Col. Magill as set forth. It
may be that he is well qualified for the
place, and that he would make a good
Comptroller-General; this we grant may
be so. The question however is, would
he make as good or a better one than
Col. Thweatt? On the one side there is
at best but a speculative probability,
while on the other the public has the as
surance of eight years by actual experi
ment.
In this connection, too, it may be
asked if Col. Magill is sack an able
mathematician and efficient insurance
agent as this writer represents him to be,
and as we do not donbt at all or pretend
to question, is it probable that the pros
perous company whose business he is
conducting, will be willing to part with
him, or that Col. Magill would be willing
to give up his present salary of four or
five thousand dollars in the position be
now holds, for a salary of two thousand
dollars as Comptroller General? * * *
As we have said, we do not wish to de
tract in the least from the merits of Col.
Magill, nor from his claims to popular
favor, because of the armless sleeve by
bis side—armless in consequence of gal
lant services in the field. * * * *
What we intended, however, more par
ticularly to allude to in the communica
tion in the Constitution, are the personal
attacks therein made upon CoL Thweatt
No one, as yet, has questioned bis em
inent ability. No one has ventured to
question his thorough competency. No
one has assailed either his qualifications
or his official integrity. No one lias had
aught to say against any act of his admin
istration during the whole period of eight
years that he filled the office with such
general satisfaction to the people of the
State, irrespective of party.
The personal assaults of the writer to
which we allude, now made, amount to
these two charges:
1st. That he is arrogant in his assump
tions and seems to claim the office as lus
own, as a matter of right. We give bnt
what we deem the substance of the
charge, and in reply say, we think it
does him great injustice. When and to
whom, we ask, has he ever shown any
such disposition?
2d. Allusion is made to Ms late cards
or addresses, to the public upon this sub
ject, in a spirit, as we conceive, quite as
unjust as unkind.
Were not these cards necessary jfor his
own vindication? Did he “come but,” as
tMs writer rather sarcastically speaks of
in their refutation,
consequences.
To say at this time, therefore, that he
came out “then as often as now,” with
the inferential intimation that his pres
ent vindication of himself in the matters
lately charged will be as ineffectual as it
was before, seems to us to bo the “un-
dindest cut” of all.
Without in any way connecting our
selves with the personal matters dis
cussed in Col. Thweatt’s addresses, we
feel it nothing bnt due to him on this
occasion to say that we think he has com
pletely silenced the authors of the stories
concocted against him, and to his preju
dice.
Bnt our wish is that the contest, where
other things are equal, shall be decided
upon the merits of the candidates and
their qualifications for the office; and
that the canvass shall be conducted on
this basis and not npon personal detrac
tion of any sort.
On this basis we feel perfectly assuied,
and so do the people of Georgia, that
the interests of the State will be safe in
the hands of Colonel Thweatt; and upon
the score of need—losses from thf results
of the war—and the dependence of his
own family, as well as that of others,
widows and orphans, looking to him for
aid and support, we also feel assured that
no one has stronger claims than he npon
the generous sympathy of the State.
From tlie Greensboro, Ua., Herald, Dec. 21,1871,
The Legislature and the Dress.
A cheerful heart is more than wealth:
A gentle hand is more than beauty:
And faith and love are more than all,
When walking, side by side, with duty.
Then, wife, onr years, although they’ve had
Some rugged days of stormy weather.
When multiplied by nine wiU be
But a brief day thus spent together.
December 23,1872.
SUN-STROKES.
The proposition :o exempt the news
paper press of Georgia from taxation,
elicited quite a protracted discussion in
the Legislature last week. The tools of
the mechanic are usually exempt from
taxation. Why should not the types
and presses of the journalist? And here
we remark, that there is a wide difference
between large publishing establishments
which do only a book and job publishing
business, and simply a newspaper office.
The well conducted journal unquestion
ably promotes the general welfare of the
country, by the dissemination of useful
intelligence upon all subjects. It is in
deed a public benefactor. Few agences
for the mental and moral improvement
of the people are in motion without its
instrumentality. There is no class of
workers who do so much free work for
Church and State, as journalists—no
profession that is so poorly paid. We
confess our surprise and mortification,
that gentlemen who are supposed to pos
sess sufficient intelligence to represent a
Georgia constituency, and who doubtless
owe their position mainly to tbe influ
ence of the art which is “preservative of
all others,” and elevates all classes, should
disparage Georgia journalism. We hope
they will be marked and hereafter “left
severely alone,” by the profession they
are unable to appreciate. Heretofore the
press of Georgia has received certain
courtesies from certain institutions and
interests, but we have yet to learn that it
has not in return always given a full con
sideration for all such favors. We repel
the notion that editors are in any sense
dead-heads,’ and our Legislators in try
ing to stultify us only injure themselves.
Let them mark that. We feel less em
barrassment in writing upon this subject,
because we have paid regularly a tax up
on our material, and have neither asked
or received any patronage from the State.
EgU People who, at their homes in the
North, are troubled with achin’, are flee
ing to Aiken as a winter resort.
J(Say The English people are raising a
subscription for the benefit of the family
of Mark Lemon.
p- The Mobile Register says “ A
Georgia paper rejoices in sausages and
other hog-killing perduities, which, per
haps, is Cherokee for perquisites.”
jggy “The churches Was all well atten
ded on Sunday,” is tbe way in which the
Griffin Sfcn• rings the death-knell of poor
old Lindley Murray.
Emma mine is about to under
mine Schenck’s reputation abroad. He
will be apt to be allowed to come home
when he can give more immediate atten
tion to his mining interests.
JCQy The Communist General Wro-
blowski has arrived in New York. The
nomenclature of the General adequately
explains his connection with the Com
mune. There is no other place for an
individual with such a name.
EQfe, “A political clown,” “an escaped
lunatic,” “a peripotetic madman,”
howling idiot,” are a few of the compli
mentary terms applied to Geo. Francis
Train by the press of the country.
A Radical writer says that the
present administration “cannot be shaken
by tbe winds of disaffection or the storms
of opposition, because- il is built upon
a rock.” They do say a good part of it
is built upon Seneca sandstone.
IGrant, the eminent contractor for
stone work, not having, as yet, disposed
his interest in the Seneca quarries, is
still receiving bids for all work in his line,
not excluding the masonry of public
buildings.
A vicious New York poet has writ
ten thirty-two nine-line stanzas on the
Chicago fire, of which the following is an
average sample:
Of
What trivial things sometimes decide the fate
* cities and of nations as of men!
The powers that human destiny arbitrate
Are far beyond the reach of human ken:
Too soon they saw the like, and worse, again!
That night a woman, at the hour of nine,
Went into a barn to milk a cow, and when
The beast kick’d o’er her lamp, as vicious kine
Will sometimes do, it in some straw and boards of
pine.”
The wit of the Atlanta Sun says
that the expression, “Neither of our pul
pits teas filled last Sunday,” is ungram
matical. We stick to it that we were
right. Consult your grammar, Bro. Wat
son.—West Point News.
Thomas Ducey, of Lowell, Massachu-
seets, became a happy father for tbe thir
ty-fourth time a few days ago. He is
ninety years old, and is living with his
third wife. He came to this country
twenty-seven years ago, bringing bis wife
and eleven children, leaving two in tbe
old country, and one having died. The
first wife died soon after his arrival. By a
second he had seventeen children, and
by the present wife three.
A safe way of doing kindness is thus
instanced by a Brownsville, Nebraska,
paper of recent date: “ One of the
coldest nights of the past week two women
of the fallen sisterhood came to the house
of a wealthy gentleman of this town, and
frankly stated their condition—without
money and without acquaintance. The
worthy landlord was in a dilemma. To
turn them out in the cold night was some
thing he could not think of doing, and
the possible consequences of sheltering
them might be worse So he had supper
prepared for them, which they devoured
with the keen relish arising from hunger.
They were then assigned to a room,
shown to it by tbe landlady in person.
When they were comfortably secured
therein, the key was quietly turned from
the outside and transferred to tbe land
lord’s pocket. The night passed serenely,
and the next morning the women were
furnished with bieakfost and went on
their way rejoicing.”
Over 20,000,000 letters were exchanged
between the United States and foreign
countries daring the last year.
There were 13,000,000 of pounds of
mail matter exchanged between Europe
and the United States daring the last year.
Josh Billings says: “About the biggest
joke there iz about the fall of man iz,
that he has lamt how tew “rate bog or
di.” This iz worth, in my opinyun
very near fust cost. Bnt I flatter miself
bi thinking in this way: that the man
who lives in this world, and duz a good
square thing thru life, none of yer 8-
hour jobs, kaz more tew brag ov than
any ov tbe angels up in heaveD.”
GEORGIA MATTERS.
The Rome Courier says: As Mr. Rol-
land Bryant—one of the oldest and most
highly respected citizens of Floyd coun
ty—was coming into town last Tuesday
morning, his horse took fright at the cars,
and threw Mm, injuring him so seriously
that he died in less than an hour, nis
age was some seventy-five years.
We learn, says the Rome Courier, that
on last Tuesday night, Peter Turner, an
employee of the Stove and Hollow-ware
Manufacturing Company, was shot three
times, the balls taking effect in his stom
ach. It is believed that he will die from
the effects. This man was intoxicated
and turbulent, and bad been arrested by
More Claims Coming In—Mobe of
Bullock’s Tbicks and the Crooked
Ways of the Ring.—Yesterday a gentle
man representing the Rogers Locomo
tive Works at Paterson, N. J., filed a
claim against the State amounting to
S59.923.64, the same being principal and
interest on three notes given by Foster
Blodgett, Superintendent W. & A. Rail
road, in favor of tbe company. Each of
these notes was dated 17th December,
1870, due on tbe 20fch April, 1871, for
$19,041.52 — amounting to $57,124.56.
They were all made payable at the office
of Henry Clews & Co., in New York.—
When they were due, they were pre
sented, and Clews refused to pay them.
They are still unpaid. They are bearing
interest since the 20th of April, which,
at 7 per cent., up to the 1st of January—
8 months and 12 days—gives $2,799.08—
making the total debt, as first stated,
$59,923.64.
These notes were given for four loco
motives, which are now on the road, aud
had been for some time before the notes
were given, viz: The “Gen. Terry,”
“^Benjamin Conley,” “Jesse,” and “John
H. Flynn.” It is, no doubt, a correct
rienced in medicine and pharmacy, ai o
desires a partner alike active as a man 0 .
business. The store, stock. .... 1
and everytMng relative to the
store, stock, trade, c itv
same pr e .
sent an opportunity to the right man
with the necessary means that is ’
^ —iwio tuacia rarelv
offered. All communications will bo *
garded as strictly confidential A
I. S. C., box 573, P. 0., Atlanta.
[From our knowledge of the
advertising, and information on
ject, we take pleasure in commend^
this enterprise to the attention of an °.
Parties
person desirous of a most excellent n
-A . - Op*
M. J. Wimpee aud Tobe Cooper. He olaim > *** ou e^t long since to have been
resisted them, stabbed Mr. Wimpee in paid, though it has not been investigated,
the wrist, and was making at Mm with an that we are aware of.
open knife, when Mr Wimpee shot. He It is alleged tbat Bullock di
shot twice. Two other shots are said to 1
have been fired.
rected Clews not to pay these notes
Old “Affairs in Geornin” of tiro Snvan- i mot ” rit * “ d £!" nl ! eg! ‘'
nah News is uneasy. He mutters, “what fcl0n 18 true ’ Wb J shouM tbls order bave
we will do for material for this column been given by Bnllock ? We can itnav-
next week, the Lord only knows. The Me only one reason: that the debt was
holiday movement is spreading among not created fo * {nmdulen t purposes; that
our Georgia exchanges like a npe mfec- .. , . . . .
tion ” it was not a thieving job; that the Rog
,, _ _ _ .... „ ... ers Locomotive Works had actually iurn-
Mr. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah News, . . , .. ... , . ,, ,
publishes the following notice: We learn “ hed tbe en S ines to the road to tbe value
that a party named E. A. Niven is going of their claim, and consequently were
about the city representing himself as a not in a corrupt ring, and not willing to
reporter of the Morning News. It is but divide with Bullock, Blodgett, Clews,
inst to ourselves to state that there is no , .. , .
such person connected with this establish- aod tlie otbers of the Ein S’ rbls ™
ment. E. A. Niven has been connected suggest as likely,
with the reportorial corps of the News, Ku-Klux.—Every species of violence
but his utter unreliability in every res- or d { SO rder in these days is called a Ku-
pect occasioned his discharge. .. . T ,
1 ° klux outrage. If the hanging of the
Richmond county ^t l,°30 votes, biers by the populace in Natchez,
Baldwin 650, Warren 345, Fioyd406, and 1
McDuffie 350—all for Smith.
Cartersville proposes to amuse herself
with a horse-race Christmas.
And still the cry is ringing tM’ough the
land, “no paper next week. “
We hear, says the Griffin Star, that a
few nights since, a parcel of negroes,
Vicksburg and San Francisco had taken
place at any time in the last four years, it
•would have been denounced by the Rad
icals us a great Ku-klnx affair.
Lawlessness of all kind$ is to bo depre
cated. One kind is not more so than an
other. There never was a people with
said to be in the employ of the Railroad virtuous instincts who would not, at some
contractors, made a raid upon our clever provocation, take the law into their own
friend Joe. Dawson, of Henry county, hands and execute vengeance upon law-
called Joe to tbe door, and riddled his , , , ,
dwelling with shot. Fortunately nobody takers who had defied and escaped the
was hurt. punishment of law.
An Augusta person is providing for We have no word of justification for
a merry Christmas. The Chroniele and one 8 uilt y of ^lessness, whether it
Sentinel says: be those wbo are called Ku ' Klax > or
The cutting winds of yesterday made tbose wbo kwlessuess and °" fcra S e
it anything bnt pleasant for the poor provoke said Ku-Klux to unlawful acts,
people who were without a fire. Re- Lawlessness in some shape has always
membering the necessities of this class, existed, and always will, no matter what
some kind Christian, who will not allow I , . . » „ -
Ms or her name tobe made public, con- maybC society or politics;
tribnted fifty cords of wood to their re- iin( l it is wrong to ascn.be sucu things to
lief. The wood was given out as soon as the alleged disloyally of those who per-
received, and made many a pauper warm | petrate them, while protecting, excusing
last night and this moraing.
LOCAL NOTES.
A subterranean lake has been struck in
srnking a well at Loami. ILL, which boils
and bubbles out to tho height of several
feet at regular intervals, and roars “ like
the ocean or the Gulf of Mexico,” besides
making the ground tremble like an earth
quake.
Now make your quotations con-ectly,
will you? The Sun quoted you as say
ing, “Last Sunday morning neither of
our three pulpits was filled,” which The
Sun is still “free to maintain” is another
illustration of what an amateur gram
marian is able to do with a provincial
newspaper. If you are unable to see in
what your inaccuracy consists, ask some
boy, who has just passed the juvenile era
of grammatical lore, aud he will tell you.
jG@“"Tlie "Washington correspondent of
the Louisville Ledger states that just pre
vious to the adjournment of the first ses
sion of the forty-second Congress a peti
tion was presented to the President,
signed by eighteen Radical Senators and
several Radical Representatives, recom
mending that he recognize Foster Blodg
ett as Senator eleet from Georgia, so as
to give Mm control of the Federal pat
ronage of the State. The petitioners
said they had examined into the case, and
were satisfied that Blodgett was legally
elected, and ought to be seated. Yet so
terrible has been the Radical fiasco in
Georgia, that even those eighteen Re
publican Senators did not have the ef
frontery to stand up to Captain Blodgett
M his last emergency. The heaviest
blow the Radical party has ever received
has been given it by the Radicals of
Georgia. Even the Radical papers of
this State have no heart to come up to
the defense of their party leaders.
JBSy The services of the laugMng ed
itor of the Sun had to be called in yes
terday to read the following brace of
paragraphs, from the Courier-Journal
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, who
will be remembered as the Georgia gen
tleman who sometime since wrote a para
graph M opposition to the “ new depart
ure,” is now the sole proprietor ot Tee
Atlanta Sun. The Atlanta Sun is
dread and fearful thrng to be owned by
a man of his age and size.
Mr. Stephens, who has done all he
could to kill the Democratic party, is now
the owner of The Atlanta Sun. If The
Sun hasn’t got its life insured, it is not
half as discreet as a full-grown newspaper
ought to be.
Loose buttons have been lying
about The Sun office ever since, and the
day night, between two and four o’clock.
One of the houses and contents were in
sured for $2,000. It is believed to be
the work of an iucendiary, and is the
second effort to destroy it M the last ten
days.
I and jnsti.ying the outrages of those who
provoke them.
New Pbofessob of State University.
| —We learn from private advices that the
Prudential Committee of the Beard of
Trustees of the State University have
designated Mr. Wilcox of Columbus, to
Illicit Distillers.—Eight persons—
some citizens of Gilmer county—were
arraigned before U. S. Commissioner W.
Smith, yesterday, for illicit distilling.
An investigation will take place to-day at I succeed Dr. Smead, deceased, as Profes-
2JP. M.
sor of Modern Languages in the Univer-
Fatal Accident in Augusta. A pri- s ity. This selection is subject to the ac-
vate dispatch to our esteemed fellow citi- y 0 n of the Trustees,
zen, Mr. J. A. Ansley, announces the Superior Court at Jonesboro.—A
death of his nephew, Mr. John Wilcox, called session of the Superior Court for
Sand Hills, near Augusta, loung Ci a jton County, for the trial of criminal
Wilcox met his death by the accidental cases only, closed yesterday, at which
discharge of his gun while in his own eight cases—five misdemeanors and three
hands. felonies—were disposed of.
Fire. The two houses occupied by| The State vs. Thos. O’Neal for the mur-
Lizzie Clifton were burned down Tliurs-
der of Joseph Anthony in Clayton Coun
ty, on the 24tli December, 1870, con
sumed most of the week. The case was
closed and given to tho jury on Thursday
evening about dark. In about half an
hour they rendered a verdict of guilty.—
A motion for a new trial was heard and
portunity to enter npon a well establish^ i
business.—Eds. Sun.] U
Mechanics’ Testimonlvl Supper-,
Season of Enjoyment Among Mechanics
—Tho gentlemen employed by Messrs.
Longley & Robinson, of the Phoenix
Planing Mill, gave a supper last evenin.
at P. H. Oelrich’s restaurant as a testing
uial to their employers. It was surpris.
ing to us to learn that this enterprising
firm had nearly one hundred men in
their employment. The following are
the names of those uuiting M giving the
supper:
Jos A Johnson, J C Conley, T NFare-
cloth, W R Millwood, George F Bnch-
anan, C R Wellborn. E W Dyer, W H
Frizzell, J W Head, H Myers, G Bishop
F K Larrabee, D W M C Jones, R .(
Monteith, J P Kelly, S H Ogletree, WH
Jernigan, J W Cross,;R L Crotty, James
Gilliam, W M Thomas, R E Thompson
Wm Torrence, J F Calloway, J D Smith’
M Cain, W Wade, A Harris, P HSimms[
A McGilvary, J M Douglas, S T Johnsj
A Baker, J C Head, G A Gilmore, Rob’t
Okancey, F O White, J A Garrett, Dp
Holloway, George Presnell, JM Hairs
ton, C W Stevens, D Hollingsworth M
Cusick. - ’
A general flow of good feeling pre-
vailed, and all enjoyed the occasion.
Toasts and speeches, wit and humor!
marked the occasion.
Messrs. Johnson, Jernigan, Conley,
Robinson, Frizzell, Longley, and others!
made addresses, and all passed, off with a
happy effect
This is the first occasion of the kind,
so far as we are aware, iu this city. We
hope it is but the beginning of innocent
enjoyments which will spread its infla-
ence to every fibre of society.
Personal.—N. E. Harris, Esq., the
talented editor of the Hancock Sentinel,
was in our office last night. He was on
his way to Tennessee to spend the holi
days with his kindred.
Foster Blodgett is eternally’ disgraced
—even in the estimation of his accompli
ces in crime. The Grand Jury found a
true bill agaiust him last summer. He
gave bond for his appearance at court.
He went away, pretending to be looking
after a seat in the Senate, but, no doubt,
to keep out of the clutches of the law.
His boud was declared forfeited at the
late session of tlie Superior Court in this
city, and a bench warrant for Ms arrest
is now in tlie hands of the Sheriff.
Besides this, tlie Grand Jury last week
found another true bill against him. He
has, no doubt, gone to join Bullock; and,
we consider it altogether probable that
neither o them will ever voluntarily again
return to Georgia. They both went away
from here with pretensions of being gone
on legitimate business, both carefully
giving out through the press here that
they would return soon.
Our readers will recollect that, we then
expressed the opinion that neither would
return while it. could be avoided.
Ain’t I Brave?—Scott, the carpet
bag Guberna - orial plunderer of South
Carolina, v lio has played the same game
that B tthick has in Georgia, in the mat
ter of State bonds and public robberies
generally, has performed a cute strategy
upon the advocates of impeachment. He
has shown him*. If to be almost as sharp
Foster Blodgett, and assumed the
James Skyles will have a hearing this overruled, and the Judge sentenced him
morning at 10 o’clock, before Judge Pitt- to be executed in private, within half a
man. mile of Jonesboro, on the 16tli Februa-
Mabried.—Mr. A. Wellborn Hill, the r y next. Solicitor-General E. P. Howell,
junior partner of the enterprising firm of and Col. J. D. Steward of Griffin, repre-
Daniel & Hill, of Augusta, was married sented the State, and E. W. Beck and
to Miss Sallie Buchanan, of Newnan, on M. M. Tidwell the defense.
Wednesday evening, 20th instant. Ma- Robert Redding and Isaac Russell (col-
ny of Wellborn’s friends would like to ored), were also tried. This was an im-
extend the “right hand of fellowshsp,” portant case. For a long time Redding,
but we can only wish him the happiness especially, has been a terror and a rutli-
which we are left to pursue. less violator of law. About two years ago
McLaughlin Sentenced.—Yesterday, be was convk ^ ed °* burglary M Spalding
E. A. McLaughlin appeared before the Superior Court, and sent to the Peniten
United States District Court. His Hon- tiar J- About one year ago Bullock par-
or, Judge Erskine, refused a new trial, doned bim out o£ tbe Penitentiary, since
and sentenced Mm to pay a fine of S5,058 wbicb time be bas been a terror to tbe
—the amount of the embezzlement—and couu * r y such as burning Mr. Blalock s
to be confined at hard labor in the peni- bouse ^ Fayette county—and about four
tentiary for three years. The way of the montba a go made an assault, with intent
transgressor is hard. to ra P e > a ^e girl in Fayette county.
llAEBm.. on Thursday evening, tho Two months ago he broke open the
21st inst., at 8 o’clock, by the Eev. D. D. ‘ s ^° re ° E J ° hn Hale m Clajton eonnty
„ ... .. i-nr r, .and stole about $o00 worth of goods.
Cox, at the residence of Mrs. General „ t ‘
^ j He was arrested two >days afterward and
Mills, Lorens D. McDonald, Esq.,
Miss Carrie Octavia Mills, youngest |
daughter of General E. R. and Mrs.
Courtney Mills—all of Atlanta.
We acknowledge a piece of the wed
ding cake, which reminded ns of days I
long since passed. We wish the new voy
agers upon life’s matrimonial bark a
strategy of a soldier, which Bullock
n< ver attempted.
But Scott would be a coward if he bad
the Georgia Legislature to-deal with him:
and if he ever has an honest set of men
te face he, too, will tuck his tail and ran
like a sl eep-stealing car, and will join
Bullock, who has sought safety in flight,
D. N. Madden, the gentleman who had
that confidence game played upon him
by the two brothers, Gist, alias Fames
worth, and who w’as required by the May
or to remain here and testify against the
rascals, had a check for $25 passed up in
his favor by the Council last night, to
reimburse bim for actual expenses in re
maiuing here. This was right—and the
pay small enough.
:
This is a description of a terrible infant
in Fentress county, Tennessee: “The
prodigy is only three years old, and
weighs seventy-five pounds, has as much
beard as. a twenty-year-old, his feet are
eight inches long, though small for one
of his build; he is fond of the society of
girls, but the boys he detests. His voice
is coarse, and his fits of passion are ter
rific.”
was tried at this term of the court. He
was convicted and sentenced to the Pen
itentiary for twenty years. Isaac Rus
sell, an accomplice, was also convicted
and received the same sentence. Solic
itor General Howell and J. L. Doyal for
the State, and Beck and Stewart for the
defense.
A Rare Opportunity.—A rare oppor-
pleasant jonmey, with a peaceful termi- tunity is presented for a partnersMp in
nation when the scenes of earth shall the Drug trade, in a neighboring city,
close upon them. ijjjq business has been established for
Married, in Crawfordville, Ga., on many years; has always done a large and
the evening of the 21st instant, by Rev. profitable trade. The retiring partner
L. B. L. Jennings, Mr. Thomas Rhodes desires to sell, on account of increasing
to Miss Corinne Kent, daughter of Dr. years and infirm health. The remain-
John J. Kent, all of Taliaferro county. I Mg partner is an active man, long expe-
Grant’s Mtlttauv Police in Illinois.
—A Washington dispatch to the New
York Post says: “There is much talk m
Washington about the President’s inter
ference with Governor Palmer in the lo
cal work of Illinois. It is accounted for
among candid men, by tlie weakness, or
at least error of the Mayor of the city ip
calling for troops, aud by the Presidents
haste to support the cause of the public
peace. No legal authority defends th®
legality of the President’s or General
Sheridan’s interference without a reqnes
from the Governor of the State; butiti
said that the President did not consul
any legal authority, having no one *
hand as an adviser but Mr. Akernuuj;
whose ability in such matters ho did
trust, and that lie was guided by the a
vice of General Porter.”